Quote Originally Posted by kurai View Post
Yes, you point out missed potential for incremental expansion of production. I haven't denied the merits of this.

You need more than this to be energy independent, and even more production on top of that in order to be able to exercise control over price spikes. This would take more than one term to accomplish, and has been a failure of American policy for decades.
It no doubt has been, but even starting us on the journey to be energy independent would help the markets combat fears from the Middle East holding a sword to our neck. Yet however as I have noted not only with Obama scaling back domestic energy production, but also refusing the Keystone Pipeline and making Canada turn to China ( Where the oil more than likely wont end up on the market ) Obama has done little to make us energy independent, in fact he has made us more dependent on what goes through the Strate of Hormuz.